I had the fright of my life yesterday when we had a major power outage while my RAID 0 drive was performing a backup. When power was restored after several hours, my RAID was no longer seen by my computer. Disk Administrator said it was uninitialized with no allocated space. Wanted me to reformat. Contained lots of character animation renders just completed as well as spots that hadn't been delivered yet. The data recovery tools I had on hand couldn't determine the file structure and several I downloaded that were specific to RAID 0 wanted me to dismantle the disks from the RAID enclosure and connect directly to the motherboard. Plus, I needed to have available storage of 3X the size of the array. Uh, scary, considering that my current backup was unsuccessful.
Then I found Testdisk at Sourceforge's site. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download A free command line app (don't fear the console) that allowed me to test several disk configurations and file structures and when the correct one was selected...voila, I could see my files in the console window. It then allowed me to write the new partition information to the array, and on reboot - there was my RAID. It also contains great tools for more basic file recovery, undelete, etc.
Hope this can help others.
Then I found Testdisk at Sourceforge's site. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download A free command line app (don't fear the console) that allowed me to test several disk configurations and file structures and when the correct one was selected...voila, I could see my files in the console window. It then allowed me to write the new partition information to the array, and on reboot - there was my RAID. It also contains great tools for more basic file recovery, undelete, etc.
Hope this can help others.